Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.